About Dana
Dana Secord is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and trauma. She also supports those dealing with addiction, LGBTQ concerns, ADHD, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Dana works with adults to make sense of painful thoughts and feelings and to find ways forward that fit their life.
Her style is direct and compassionate. Sessions invite honest talk about what is happening now and how the body reacts to stress.
Background and approach
Dana combines talk-based work with attention to physical experience to help people notice patterns and try new responses. She encourages clients to set small, reachable goals and build skills that matter day to day. Dana earned a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Texas Wesleyan University and holds an LPC license.
She has worked in independent practice and community health settings. Her background includes supporting people impacted by sexual abuse, mood disorders, and substance use concerns. In sessions she uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person.
That can mean focusing on thoughts and behavior, strengthening attachment and relationship awareness, or using somatic-informed strategies to track how the body holds stress. Treatment plans are made together and adjusted as needs shift. Dana aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can tell their story and try practical steps toward change.
She helps clients clarify values, improve communication, and practice new ways of coping so life feels more manageable over time.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how stress shows up in the body, such as tension, shallow breathing, or restlessness. Online sessions can guide gentle awareness and simple body-based practices that clients can use between meetings to reduce reactivity.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to sit with hard thoughts. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions and pairs well with online homework and short exercises between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationships and past connections shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand triggers and improve communication and is often used alongside other methods to strengthen relationships and self-understanding.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. Sessions are adjusted as progress and challenges appear, rather than sticking to one rigid plan.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow quick check-ins between sessions, and let people practice skills in their real-world environment. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach strategies, support homework, and maintain continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English